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LOYAL PUBLICATION SOCIETY, 



NEW YORK, 




863 BROADWAY. 



No. 69. 



WHOM DO ENGLISH TOKIES WISH ELECTED TO THE 
PKESIDENOY ? 

The following extracts from late English papers will show 
which candidate for the Presidency is favored by those 
Englishmen who have labored so zealously for the destruc- 
tion of our country : 

The Times. (Sept. 26.) 

" McClellan is the ' regular nominee/ and unless the dis- 
appointed section is strong enough to reassemble the conven- 
tion, and obtain from it a reversal of the election, the party 
must go into the field against the Republicans." 



The Morning Post. (Sept. 27.) 

" It is curious that, with scarcely an exception, the several 
organs of the English press inferred that the nomination of 
General McClellan might be accepted as the inauguration of 
a peace policy." 






The Morning Herald. {Sept. 28.) 

« A great victory in the South would at once give the 
upper hand to the peace party in the North." 

Saturday Eeview. {Oct. 1.) 

"For the honorary sinecure of the Vice-Presidency, they 
ventured to select one of their own number, Mr Pendleton, 
a highly respectable Peace Democrat from Ohio Mr. 
Horatio Seymour and his friends had no reason to reckon on 
General McClellan's concurrence in their views, but they 
were probably assured by his personal supporters that he 
would adopt the resolutions of the convention." 

United Service Gazette. {Oct. 1.) 

« If Lee delivers his battle and wins, Mr. Lincoln loses his 
election ; General McClellan will take his place, and peace 
will be the result." 

The Press. {Oct. 1.) 
"What Mr D'Israeli said on the question at Aylesbury 
the other day, is no doubt true enough; but though the 
issues of the war are vast and profound, and the people of 
the North are unwilling to sacrifice themselves for the attain- 
ment of those issues, the war must languish, and finally die 
out for want of popular support. Sooner or later this must 
happen, and if the Democrats are active and energetic the 
grand result may be brought about by the approaching elec- 
tion for the next President of the Federal States." 

John Bull. {Oct. 1.) 

« Now it seems to us possible that McClellan may still 
secure, or attempt to secure, the votes of the Peace Demo- 
crats, by coming out hereafter with some proposal of tender- 
in „. an immediate armistice and a general convention of all 






the states, to re-settle the Constitution under which they are 
in future to live. As we read his letter, it is quite possible 
for him, while coming forward as a candidate under the old 
Constitution, to say that it shall, at all hazards, be main- 
tained by him until properly abrogated by some such general 
convention of states as that which first adopted it. As a 
general at the head of the nominal army of the United 
States, he might, if elected, consider himself a second 
Washington. * * * * This would fully acknowledge 
State Rights," &c, &c. 

The Index. (Confederate agent in London.) Oct. 1. 

" Well will it be for the Confederate States, but, above 
all, for the United States, if the Northern peace party 
become dominant." 



THE BRITISH APPEAL FOR PEACE-MORE IM- 
PERTINENCE. 



Governor Seymour is made the recipient of a memorial, 
which has appeared in print, from some three hundred 
Englishmen and Irishmen, pronouncing our war against the 
Southern states a wrong, a failure, and a ruin to our republi- 
can institutions, and asking its immediate discontinuance. 
This memorial is headed, and was circulated by Henry de 
Houghton, Baronet. That is appropriate enough, for it 
speaks for British class interests. It is committed to Horatio 
Seymour. That, too, is appropriate enough, for it speaks to 
American faction and sedition. But though the authorship 
and the trusteeship are apt, the memorial itself is not so. 
It is a piece of superlative impertinence. 

The American people understand their own concerns. 
They want no foreign teaching. They can also manage their 
own concerns. They want no foreign advice. Their assur- 



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ance is that this is a war for self-preservation. Their de- 
termination is that it shall be fought through until every 
hair's breadth of the republic is secure. That assurance and 
that determination are as much beyond the influence of the 
Old World as the sun in the heavens. 

The English people — or, at least the dominant classes of 
the English people — have chosen to take sides against our 
government, and for the rebellion. In the beginning of the 
war, this was regarded with great regret by Americans, for 
they had no other than good feeling toward England. 
Honest and earnest efforts were made to change the English 
spirit. They failed. Our people realized the failure, 
accepted it, and resigned themselves to it. Since that time, 
they have been wholly indifferent to British sentiment. So 
far as respects the positive complicity of the British govern- 
ment and people with the actual prosecution of the war 
against us, on the high seas, they have deferred the reckon- 
ing till they can give it their special attention. So far as 
respects the misrepresentation and contumely ceaselessly 
emitted against us by the presses most patronised in Eng- 
land, we care not. It is impotent. These gentry may be- 
fool themselves as they like, and rave as they please, within 
their own little limits. Our only demand is that they shall 
take it out by themselves. Let them keep their distance. 
Our people want none of their memorials. We mean our 
loyal people — these millions who are governing, and who will 
continue to govern this nation. In their name, we say to 
these intermeddlers : Back to your place. 



Loyal Leagues, Clubs, or individuals, may obtain any of 
our publications at the cost price, by application to the 
Executive Committee, or by calling at the rooms of the 
Society, No. 863 Broadway, where all information may be 
obtained relating to the society. 



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